Fengxian Jiangshan

"Why doesn't it work, big brother, you are dead-brained!"

While they were talking, a clear voice like a silver bell came over. A woman in her twenties stood beside Zhang Tinglan and the others. Everyone knew her. She was Qiao Ruixuan's younger sister, Qiao Lanyun.

At the beginning Liu Shucheng recommended her to manage Xingye Trading Company, responsible for smuggling to Russia, Zhang Tinglan talked with her personally, and found that this woman possessed amazing business talent, and she had a ruthless and decisive spirit, which was even higher than his brother. She was put in charge of the trading company without hesitation. During this period of time, the smuggling work has indeed become smoother, thanks to Qiao Lanyun's contribution.

"Brother, you heard that Young Master Zhang also said that. I told you that at the beginning, but you just didn't listen, you're so stupid!"

"Sister, don't talk nonsense. Our Qiao family has been doing business for generations with sincerity as the foundation, small profits but quick turnover. This is our root, and we must not forget it. And this time we are selling canned food to the British, which is a big power. Once If you offend them, won't you cause trouble for Young Master Zhang!"

"You talk about integrity, but people don't talk about it. How much bullying our banks have suffered over the years. The banks of foreigners can't play it clearly, so they run secretly and instigate the imperial court to bully us. How much we have suffered. It is hard to be able to take over. How can they let go of their cheapness!"

"Brother Qiao, I very much agree with your business philosophy. A businessman and a factory cannot do without these four words if they want to gain a firm foothold forever."

From the bottom of my heart, Zhang Tinglan agrees with Qiao Ruixuan's Confucian business philosophy. No matter when it comes, this kind of real trade is the safest. No matter how fancy the capital game is, there will be a day when something goes wrong.

"However, flexibility is the most important thing in business, and now is the time when flexibility is needed. Everything on the European battlefield has become consumables, including life. Soldiers on the front line will die at any time. Who cares whether they are killed by bullets or eating canned food Yes. And the Americans will only do worse than us, as long as the cost can be reduced, the British will be grateful to us and will not consider anything else!"

Qiao Lanyun listened to her ears, and her eyes showed a smug smile: "Brother, you have nothing to say now! In fact, it is not difficult to make canned food. What we lack most are two raw materials, one is thin iron sheet, and the other is antiseptic. These must be imported from the United States. As long as the cost of raw materials is greatly reduced, more can be imported, and the output will naturally increase. After half a year, it will not be a dream to produce 50 cans per month."

Zhang Tinglan kept nodding while listening. Qiao Lanyun was indeed more spiritual than his brother, and it was worth cultivating.Zhang Tinglan thought for a while and then said: "If the thin iron sheet is not easy to import, we can also produce some canned food in glass bottles. In short, it is enough to keep the price down. Even if the British don't want it, we can sell it to a Russian!"

After they had discussed it, they walked around the factory again, and a special slaughterhouse was arranged at the back. Many people have already sent cattle, sheep and other livestock here, and many of them are herdsmen who came here after hearing the news.

Now it is September, and winter in the north will come soon. For the herdsmen, every winter is a severe test. If the snow is too violent, it will cause white disasters, large areas of livestock will die, and the loss will be huge. It was terrible, so they heard that the cannery bought a large number of cattle and sheep, so they tried to send them here.

"Brother Qiao, if you are worried about selling low-quality canned food and harming nature, you can give some benefits to these farmers and herdsmen. When buying meat, the price will be raised a little bit, and workers will be treated better every New Year's Day. They are all your compatriots. Those foreigners, no matter what they do, it would be better if they died, so as to save them from committing crimes in the world!"

At present, the factory has been officially put into operation, and thousands of cans are produced every day. More than a dozen workers hired from Russia are carefully teaching skills and training apprentices.After the British machines are in place, the production capacity can definitely increase exponentially, or even increase by ten or a hundred times is not difficult. After all, the technology of canned food is not difficult, and the market is very broad.

Even if the First World War is over, there will still be a joint intervention in Russia, and the Feng army will develop. The annual demand for military cans is amazing, enough for this factory to thrive.

Even if calculated according to the current production capacity, a can is 10,000 pounds, and the profit is calculated as one-tenth, and it can earn [-] pounds in a year, which is equivalent to three [-]+ oceans.Moreover, relying on this factory, many workers can be supported, which is also a good news for herdsmen.

If we can establish heavy industrial enterprises and extend the industrial chain, more ordinary people can benefit. The real benefits are in front of us, and Fengtian businessmen are more and more interested in doing business.

After Zhang Tinglan left the factory, he plunged into the work of recruiting soldiers.According to Zhang Tinglan's idea, the Independent Brigade must be turned into a trump card force, and all the bad habits of the old army must be completely abandoned.To create a brand new armed force from head to toe, recruiting is the first step, which must be strictly controlled.

Therefore, recruits must have a clean family background, no bad habits, good health, and no hidden diseases.In addition, Zhang Tinglan has special requirements on the level of education. If he can know more than [-] characters, he can be selected as a key training object.

The military pay will be 27% higher than that of ordinary soldiers, and they will be promoted as reserve officers with priority. Most of the soldiers of the [-]th Division were from the green forest, and they had little impression of cultural knowledge, even Zhang Zuoxiang.

On the contrary, they even think that the more they read, the less courageous they will be, and if they have no courage, how can they fight wars!Therefore, it is more appropriate to fight desperately, and the more stupid the soldier, the more he will not be afraid of death.

Zhang Tinglan obviously disagrees with this idea. War is not just about courage, especially modern war, it is also a contest of intelligence.Weapons are becoming more and more complex, and a certain knowledge base is necessary to get the most out of them.

Moreover, the battlefield situation is changing rapidly, grasping the battlefield situation, implementing tactical intentions, reconnaissance, surveying and mapping, etc. all require specialized training. It is hard to imagine that an uneducated army can adapt to the needs of modern warfare.

In fact, from people like Zhang Zuoxiang, Zhang Tinglan also saw the problems of the Chinese team in this era.They are just an old-style army equipped with foreign guns and cannons, and they do not have the qualities that soldiers of the new era should have.

Zhang Tinglan could only spend a lot of thought on explaining the importance of cultural knowledge to her father. In order to increase her credibility, Zhang Tinglan pulled Yang Yuting over again.

Yang Yuting is training artillery, but it is not too difficult for him to train a little artillery.After finding out the performance of the artillery, he quickly formulated a corresponding training plan.But Yang Yuting also encountered the problem of seriously low quality of soldiers.

Take the soldiers of those artillery regiments as an example. It is already very good for them to know how to fire a gun. Moreover, most of the old-fashioned artillery equipped by the Fengjun rely on visual inspection. Therefore, these people do not know how to use the advanced aiming equipment on the artillery. , with a weapon in his hand, but unable to exert his combat power.

Yang Yuting was also distressed because of the quality of the soldiers, so Zhang Tinglan pulled him over. Yang Yuting also couldn't help pouring out his bitterness, talking about the difficulty of training soldiers. He is a non-commissioned officer student studying in Japan, and he is obviously more familiar with the army than Zhang Tinglan. Convinced.

Zhang Zuoxiang was also persuaded by them, and all agreed to Zhang Tinglan's recruitment requirements. In addition, Zhang Zuoxiang arranged for someone to hire several teachers to give lessons to these recruits so that they could read and write.

After the recruitment conditions were determined, Zhang Tinglan used Fengtian's large and small newspapers to start publicity. At the same time, he posted recruitment notices outside the main shops, listing the conditions and benefits of recruitment in detail.

It turned out that Zhang Tinglan was planning to spend a lot of money to recruit qualified soldiers, but Zhang Zuoxiang blocked his death plan. After all, Zhang Zuolin was still watching. If the salary of the independent brigade greatly exceeded that of the 27th division, how would Lao Zhang deal with himself? Isn't it okay to find a draw!

Zhang Tinglan also knew the seriousness of it, so he gave up his original idea, but he still formulated some welfare benefits. The soldiers' meals were guaranteed to be two dishes and one soup, and one meal of meat every three days. Usually, polished rice and white noodles were enough. Clothes inside and outside the set, half a month of family leave is arranged every year, which can give priority to helping military family members arrange work, and children are also subsidized for schooling.

In addition to these, the more attractive thing is the reward plan. The salary of ordinary soldiers is one yuan per month, which can be increased if they perform well in training, and those who make great progress in reading and study can be rewarded, up to one and a half yuan.And those soldiers who are already literate can also take the initiative to teach others to read, and they can also win awards according to the number of people, up to two oceans a month.

Ordinary Fengtian people certainly don't understand why the army needs to read and write, and they take it as a joke, and the independent brigade has become a literacy school!But some people understand the meaning of this. The most sensitive ones are the Japanese. They have been plotting the three eastern provinces. Naturally, they will not allow Fengtian to raise a strong army, so these people began to step up their plots and schemes.

"Brother Tinglan, brother Tinglan, big news!" Zhang Xueliang ran to the teahouse panting, and found Zhang Tinglan in his old place.

These days Zhang Tinglan has been busy recruiting soldiers, and finally had a little free time, so she sat in a teahouse for a while, a teahouse is a small society, and Zhang Tinglan was also happy to listen to the views of the common people on various things here.

Zhang Xueliang hurried over, "Brother Tinglan, there is a master who was invited by Duan Zhigui to the Marshal's Mansion. This master has profound morals and is said to have unpredictable opportunities."

Speaking of this, Zhang Xueliang leaned forward and asked in a low voice: "Brother Tinglan, is this not arranged? I heard that the master drove a group of vicious dogs back with a flick of his sleeves, and continued to do so for three days." Not eating or drinking, but still able to walk on the water in the end, is simply a land fairy!"

Zhang Tinglan took a sip of the teacup slowly, and said with a smile: "Hanqing, you know this master, do you want to learn two-handed magic from him?"

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